Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.